Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 12/13/2011 04:56 AM, Ottavio wrote: > > I see these two options in the qemu manual: > > > > -mem-path path > > Allocate guest RAM from a temporarily created file in path. > > -mem-prealloc > > Preallocate memory when using -mem-path. > >

Re: [ARMedslack] setup support for installing on NFS

2011-04-26 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Andrzej Telszewski wrote: > My installation procedure looked like this: > - mounted remote NFS on /mnt, > - used SD/MMC so the setup finally didn't complain about lack of partition, > - in TARGET menu I selected 'Continue' without setting any target partition. > > Any suggest

Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedslack on Open Pandora

2011-02-28 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Stuart Winter wrote: > > # INSTALL_MOD_PATH="/mnt/sd/1/" make modules_install > > cp: cannot stat `/home/me/pandora/pandora-kernel/modules.builtin': No such > > file or directory > > make: *** [_modinst_] Error 1 > > I don't know what that's about but you can search for the e

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2011-01-07 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > If this works well can you upload the .bin to bourbon please and > > > I'll distribute that instead of the one we have atm. > > > > Why not compile your own u-boot binaries? I need to tidy up my > > changes, but I can give you my patches. > > Becau

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2011-01-07 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote: > > The spin-up timeout in u-boot is set to 5 seconds, which seems a bit > > low - the specs for my drive say the typical drive ready time is 13s. > > I've increased the timeout to 30s and now it seems to work reliably. > > If this works well can you upl

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2011-01-06 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote: > I just tried rebooting one of the SPs and the drive times out and u-boot > reboots, then it works. The spin-up timeout in u-boot is set to 5 seconds, which seems a bit low - the specs for my drive say the typical drive ready time is 13s. I've increase

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2011-01-06 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote: > > I did have a look actually, but I think I've run into an > > initialisation issue. It works intermittently - if you run up a > > kernel, halt and then reset via JTAG, it will detect the drive, but > > fail when trying to access it. If you reset the p

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2011-01-06 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Stuart Winter wrote: > > When I've got some time I'll look into making it work more reliably. > > Have you looked into it yet ? :-) I did have a look actually, but I think I've run into an initialisation issue. It works intermittently - if you run up a kernel, halt and then

Re: [ARMedslack] Thinking about changing Slackware ARM to armv5t baseline

2011-01-04 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 01/04/2011 07:03 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > > > > > It looks like Zipit uses an Xscale which is armv5, so it would work, as > > > > far as I can tell. > > > > > > Zipit uses ARM720T (ARMv4T), the same as my GP2X primary processor (GP2X > > > has a

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-12-07 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, John O'Donnell wrote: > > > You are booting from ext. It is HIDEOUSLY slow. I make a small FAT partition > > and boot from that on the guru usb. > > This must be something to do with the Guruplug. I boot from an ext2 > partition o

Re: [ARMedslack] Booting Slack 13.1 from eSata on Guruplug Server Plus

2010-11-28 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > Jawkins - do you have the u-boot binary you built from the Marvell > sources? does it have ext2 & eSATA support? I never actually got round to building it in the end, but looking at the latest u-boot git repo, it looks like the GuruPlug should have ext

Re: [ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current

2010-10-08 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > There were a number of patches to the 13.1 kernel: > armedslack-13.1/source/k/sources/patches/esata_sheevaplug_and_guruplug-patchset > but as far as I knew, all of the guru plug stuff was merged into > the upstream kernel: > > At present, I don't apply *

Re: [ARMedslack] Trying armedslack-current

2010-10-08 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 10/08/2010 03:19 AM, Stuart Winter wrote: > > I know Jim on this list has received his guruplug a week ago, and they've > > added a whopping fan to it which makes itself known in the room. > > Perhaps you shoud send yours back for a swap. > > Oh I ha

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 13.1 rc1 ready

2010-09-25 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Fri, 21 May 2010, John O'Donnell wrote: > Jim Hawkins wrote: > > $ grep guruplug arch/arm/tools/mach-types > > guruplugMACH_GURUPLUG GURUPLUG2659 > > > > Try arcNumber=2659 instead. > > [snip] > > It sti

Re: [ARMedslack] Armedslack on a dockstar :-)

2010-09-15 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > I don't see anything about the "Dockstar" in the "kirkwood > implementations" in the Kernel armedslack ships. There might be support > in linux 2.6.36, in which case I'll add it in when I next update the > kernel. Someone just posted a patch for the

Re: [ARMedslack] What's the difference between USB<->serial devices on Arm Slack and Intel Slack?

2010-07-21 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > I'm not too familiar with why the kernel firmware stuff gets built but I > suspect it's just because support for a specific driver is compiled in, > or is compiled as a module, so the corresponding fw is built and > packaged/installed when "make modul

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware 13.1 and forward is EABI...

2010-07-20 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > I am not a toolchain or architecture wizard, so I might be wrong here; > but I think it's not just compiling it for armv4t that matters (compared > with -march=armv4 which is what AS 12.2 used). I have to admit to having no experience of Thumb, but I

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 13.1 rc1 ready

2010-05-21 Thread Jim Hawkins
$ grep guruplug arch/arm/tools/mach-types guruplugMACH_GURUPLUG GURUPLUG2659 Try arcNumber=2659 instead. Cheers, Jim On Fri, 21 May 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > > Hi John > > > arcNumber=2097 > > This value is correct for a SheevaPlug, but looking a

Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM 13.1 & Linux 2.6.33.4

2010-05-18 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Stuart Winter wrote: > I'd guess that the right order would be numerical since the patches are > numbered in numerical order, but junk 3 of patch 0003 doesn't apply. I > haven't tried alternating the order yet. You're not trying to do a patch --dry-run are you? Hunk #3 of p